During the course of these lectures the following topics will be treated:
a) The monomer-dimer problem.
b) The Takahashi nearest-neighbor gas.
c) The one-dimensional Coulomb gas.
d) The transfer matrix method and the one-dimensional nearest and next
nearest neighbor Ising models.
e) The dimer problem on the square planar lattice:
à The "algebraic" solution,
2° The operator solution.
f) The two-dimensional Ising model.
g) The Ice problem.
h) The KDP model of a ferroelectric,
i) The F model of an anti-ferroelectric.